| Penthouse Purchases Various, Inc., Sale Includes Bondage.com
"San Francisco-based Bondage.com was founded in 1996 to deliver an exciting, educational, and erotic experience to BDSM devotees and the curious. The free site features photos of members, stories, columns on topics relating to Bondage, Fetish, BDSM, personals ads and active chat rooms. The company has developed advanced technology to deliver a unique adult internet experience. Various plans to run Bondage.com as a completely separate site to preserve it's unique chemistry and community." In this latest acquisition, Penthouse purchased Various, Inc. for an approximate $500 Million USD. Included in the sale is over 25 social networking sites, including Bondage.com, Alt.com, Adultfriendfinder.com, Gradfinder.com and Bigchuch.com, etc. Current plans by Penthouse are to retain all sites previously owned by Various, Inc.
Yahoo Messenger 9.0 beta
Yahoo Messenger allows you to see when friends are online and you can send them instant messages. It can also alert you to new mail in your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Personals account, or when you have an upcoming meeting recorded in Yahoo Calendar. Yahoo Messenger offers firewall support; a standby mode that minimizes the program until an Internet connection is made; the ability to save and print your conversations; and a tabbed interface that provides quick access to your favorite stocks, news, and sports scores. Other features include the ability to create a chat room automatically, stock price alerts, the ability to send messages to friends even if they're not online when you are, a Quick Compact mode that hides the Messenger tools to maximize your viewing area, Messenger Themes, and the Online Presence, a small HTML button you can put on your Web site to allow your Yahoo buddies to instantly see if you are currently online, and voice chat, which allows you to talk for free to anybody else on the Internet.
Jangl Selects Level 3 to Support Voice Platform
BOSTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced that Jangl is leveraging Level 3's wholesale voice and data services to provide converged communications to its customers by offering integrated wireline/wireless Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. Distributed directly to consumers at Jangl.com and through partnerships with leaders in social networking, social media and online personals communities, Jangl's service is a simple and easy-to-use way to let people initiate phone connections without sharing their personal information. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Level 3(R) is providing Local Inbound, Voice Termination, International Voice Termination, Toll Free, and High Speed IP (HSIP) services to Jangl. Level 3 hands off the call to Jangl's platform, enabling Jangl to assign a new number that provides a way for consumers to interact with one another without divulging personal information like private phone numbers.
More than 20 Years in the Making
Increasingly, however, many hedge funds are betting there is far worse to come for the corporate debt market as well. Hedge fund managers and the trading desks of some of the savviest firms on Wall Street are expecting a severe downturn in the corporate debt market... A number of trades have been made on the assumption that, when things go wrong, corporate creditors will receive far less than 100 cents on the dollar, and the more junior their debt, the less they will get back." January 22 - The Wall Street Journal (Aparajita Saha-Bubna): "Hybrid securities have in the past been an easy source of capital for cash-strapped financial institutions. But that has all changed. Risk premiums on these securities - sandwiched between bank loans and common stock in a company's capital structure - have risen across the board as investors rethink the aggressive terms and conditions under which they lent to these once credit-healthy borrowers." January 24 - Bloomberg (Bryan Keogh and David Mildenberg): "Bank of America Corp...
Erap: handa akong maging Pangulo muli
Handa rin daw si Erap na maging Pangulo muli sakaling tuluyang bumagsak ang administrasyong Arroyo kung ito ang gusto ng taumbayan. Mainit ang pagtanggap ng mga taga-Baguio kay dating Pangulong Joseph Estrada sa kanyang pagdalo sa taunang Panagbenga Festival. Kasama ni Erap sina Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay at dating senador Ernesto Maceda. “Sinadya ko talaga pumunta para makita ang Panagbenga dahil sa I never experienced it. Hindi ko pa nakikita to. This is the first time that's why I'm telling the mayor, masaya pala at maganda," aniya. “I love flowers, all kinds" pabiro pang sabi ni Erap. Pagkagaling sa Panagbenga Festival diretso si Erap sa Baguio Country Club para makipagpulong sa mga lokal na lider ng oposisyon dito.
Junction City development to be discussed
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Jason S. Martin
Jan. 23, 1927-Dec. 3, 2007 Jason S. Martin, 80, died Monday in his home at Greencroft Retirement Center, Goshen. Jason was born in Wakarusa to Joseph E. and Mary (Shaum) Martin on Jan. 23, 1927. He married Mary Fuss Baer Dec. 25, 1956, in Washington, D.C. Jason was a retired Mennonite pastor, church consultant, congregational overseer and author. He received degrees from Goshen College, Goshen Biblical Seminary and the University of Notre Dame. In addition to serving as pastor and interim pastor of congregations in Indiana, Michigan, Arizona, and Nebraska, he served in 1-W (alternative service) with the Mennonite Board of Missions in Puerto Rico for two years, and taught Spanish at Jimtown High School. He is survived by his wife Mary; three sons, Stephen, Walkerton, Philip (Judy Godshalk), Plymouth, Michel (Susan Harter), Wakarusa; a daughter, Judith, Springfield, Mo.; and six grandchildren.
Weather: P/SUNNY
Customers in western Cumberland County did not know Sunday afternoon that a water advisory had been issued in their neighborhood late Saturday because of low water pressure. When Christine Hatcher of Reedy Creek Drive learned of the advisory, she contacted a customer service representative in Raleigh for Aqua America, the utility company that issued the advisory. The company posted a message on its Web site Saturday advising customers in the Cliffdale West and Turnbridge areas to boil their drinking water. Hatcher said she was never told by the representative to boil water. Instead, she was told that thousands of customers were without water and were advised to watch the news for updates. "She had no information to relay to people that were calling," Hatcher said.
Your year ahead
As soon as you are bucked off in the rodeo, you get right back on a different horse. On a mildly more serious note, this is a year of experimentation, of testing your ideas of how a relationship should be. You are working out what you want.Work and moneyThat grubby obsession you had developed with the filthy lucre is almost at an end. Over the course of the next year, your ruling planet moves out of your money house and into your house of communication. Now you feel money's only real purpose is to allow you access to otherwise inaccessible chambers of knowledge. Maybe you use it to fund a course. Those working in the media or anything else involving communication should find their work goes stratospheric.Life and leisureWhen it comes to friends, you have two lists this year: the 'in' list and the 'out' list.
2008 haute couture creation of Hungarian designer Bori Toth
NAOMI, a 28-year-old single woman from north London, is fed up with online-dating sites after failing to find love in cyberspace.
Theyre awful, she sighs. People put their best foot forward on them, putting up the best photo they can find of themselves and...
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LOVE LIBS: Words for the romantic— and the heartsick
Ah, love. Who could guess that one little word could be so complicated? Whether you’re trying to find a new love or express your feelings about a current one, the words always seem to get bungled. You say it wrong. Or you say something you don’t mean. Or you don’t say it at all. So in honor of Valentine’s Day (and the little naked dude), we offer this spin on the Mad Lib game as a nod to how complicated love can be — no matter what you’re trying to say. (You know the Mad Lib drill: Have a friend ask you for the missing parts of speech, fill in the blanks, then read aloud. The less sense it makes, the better!) DEAR CUPID, I don’t know if it’s my ___________ ADJECTIVE personality or my ________________________ ADJECTIVE/PART OF BODY but something is driving the ladies away! I take my dates to the ____________ ADJECTIVE places, open doors, pull out their ________________ PLURAL NOUN and pay for their __________________.
'Sounds That Change The World' - Pacifica Radio Archives' 6th Annual ...
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- What do Jackson Browne, Cesar Chavez, Arthur C. Clarke, Angela Davis, Ossie Davis, Samuel R. Delaney, Duke Ellington, Allen Ginsberg, Robert F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, Rosa Parks, Bonnie Raitt, Ayn Rand, Rob Reiner, Bobby Seale, Harry Shearer, Gloria Steinem, Alan Watts and dozens of other figures from our collective political, artistic and social heritage all have in common? They will all be featured via Pacifica Radio Archives' (PRA) "Sounds That Change The World -- A Day For Pacifica Radio Archives" nineteen hours of mind-bending and extraordinary special programming that will be simulcast nationally on the Pacifica Radio Network on Tues., November 27 beginning at 7AM/ET. This beyond special broadcast event celebrates the archives' unparalleled audio treasury of America's progressive memory from the latter half of the 20th century and Pacifica's tradition of giving voice to independent thinkers who were often shut out of history books and mainstream media.
Taxpayers can relax and wait for refunds
Maybe one of the best things about the federal tax rebates headed for millions of households starting this spring is that most people don't have to do anything special to get one. Simply file your tax return as usual and sit back and wait. There are no extra forms to fill out or questions to answer. Uncle Sam will do the calculations for you and automatically send you the money. While the majority of households will receive the maximum $600 for singles, $1,200 for couples and an extra $300 per child, high and low wage earners will receive less. Some will get nothing. If you're not sure how much you will be getting and don't want to wait to find out, Kiplinger.com has posted a handy online calculator that figures a household's rebate based on income, filing status, number of children and tax liability.
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